Hacker News: morninglight

New comment by morninglight in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

morninglight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:00:59 +0000

YES!!! Old age and dying are actually good for inherited wealth.

New comment by morninglight in "What killed the Florida orange?"

morninglight — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:39:35 +0000

Anita Bryant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant#/media/File:Anita...

New comment by morninglight in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

morninglight — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:48:41 +0000

It should now be possible to discard my boxes of old Byte - but it is not easy.

New comment by morninglight in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

morninglight — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:33:22 +0000

The end came quickly.

https://www.deseret.com/1999/8/20/19461583/iomega-president-...

New comment by morninglight in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

morninglight — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:11:32 +0000

Put my tax dollars to better use.

In 2025, BYD manufactured 2.2 million battery electric vehicles.

I only need one.

New comment by morninglight in "'Tiny Shortcuts' Are Poisoning Science"

morninglight — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:27:55 +0000

> It would go on to become Halsman’s most iconic image.

Indeed!

https://arthur.io/img/art/jpg/00017344b99caa17a/philippe-hal...

New comment by morninglight in "The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets"

morninglight — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:39:23 +0000

In order to read their tale about surveillance, Politico tells you to "SIGN IN".

They want you to give them your email, employer's name and your job title.

Is this some kind of joke?

Or are these people actually that stupid?

New comment by morninglight in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

morninglight — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:57:50 +0000

WordPad was good for this on Windows - maybe too good.

AbiWord looked like it might be similar on Linux, but never kept up.

There is a very light weight, free program called "The Guide" which is also good for notes

https://portableapps.com/apps/office/the_guide_portable

https://theguide.sourceforge.net/

It hasn't been updated for about 8 years, but it doesn't require installation and we have found it very useful.

New comment by morninglight in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

morninglight — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:38:15 +0000

We need to break this pattern of kinetic weapons.

How about some modern, safe bio-weapons.

New comment by morninglight in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

morninglight — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:13:21 +0000

This is not a retraction. It is just CYA - Cover your Arse Technica.

They need to enumerate the specific details they fudged.

They need to correct any inaccuracies.

Otherwise, there is little reason to trust Arse Technica in the future.

New comment by morninglight in "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds"

morninglight — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:24:16 +0000

> We constructed a composite measure reflecting lifetime cognitive enrichment...

and for $39.00 we will tell you about it.

No thanks.

New comment by morninglight in "Don't discount American democracy's resilience"

morninglight — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:11:35 +0000

Citizens United?

What's that?

New comment by morninglight in "Real engineering failures instead of success stories"

morninglight — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:26:05 +0000

Some more great engineering failures are here ;

https://stream.engineered.network:8002/stream

New comment by morninglight in "Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All"

morninglight — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:14:53 +0000

Real men use Unijunction Transistors like the 2N2646.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unijunction_transistor

New comment by morninglight in "The Showa Hundred Year Problem"

morninglight — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:19:41 +0000

Japan's continued use of the imperial year system is similar to America's use of imperial units instead of the metric system.

Don't count on either changing soon.

New comment by morninglight in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

morninglight — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:46:33 +0000

Gotta get those gasoline prices down before the midterms.

New comment by morninglight in "Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy"

morninglight — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:24:12 +0000

As Japan's economy weakened, Abe and now Takaichi have promoted remilitarization. The big money in military hardware can sway any election. The US is a obvious example. The best "democracy" that money can buy.

New comment by morninglight in "Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers"

morninglight — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:22:25 +0000

A Data Center is a Crypto Miner in disguise. Understand that fact, and you understand the future.

New comment by morninglight in "[dead]"

morninglight — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:00:44 +0000

This saved me a lot of money! After checking the price, I bought a new broom, mop and a bucket.

New comment by morninglight in "Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions"

morninglight — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:23:09 +0000

Maybe he needs a new, low cost supplier?

https://youtu.be/_W0FUeeiDcU